Forgetfulness Quote by Romare Bearden

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

— Honore de Balzac

“...here we have the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems…

— Noam Shpancer

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

— Adrian Forty

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.

— Beryl Markham

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

— Jeanette Winterson

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

— Marilynne Robinson

Memory is the thing you forget with.

— Alexander Chase

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

— Plutarch

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig

You can easily forget the things you try to remember, and remember the things you try to forget.

— Syoung

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon